ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-e-Tehreek-e-Insaf-led federal government on Thursday decided to launch ‘Kamyab Jawan Program’, aimed to create job opportunities for at-least one million youth in the country, at earliest, ARY News reported.
The decision was taken in a meeting held in Islamabad, on the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, with Finance Minister Asad Umar, PM’s Aide for Youth Usman Dar and others in attendance.
The meeting decided to initiate the program immediately by reserving funds of rupees 200 bn for the same.
Addressing the participants of the meeting, the finance minister said government is introducing a revolutionary program for the youth of the country.
Usman Dar relayed that the program will open new windows of job opportunities for youth and would economically empower them.
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Earlier, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, on February 6, had said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government had promised to give jobs to ten million people, but the figure will be higher at the end of its five years tenure.
In a tweet, he had said it was responsibility of the government to create pro-people economic environment and people will get employment with the expansion and strengthening of the economy.
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